[PDF] French Presidential Election 2017 eBook

Author : Jocelyn Evans
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319683276

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​Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the 2017 presidential elections represents one of the most important disruptions to French political life since the establishment of the Fifth Republic. This book analyses the political opportunities enabling a neophyte to conquer the Elysée, and the conditions leading to the unprecedented presidential runoff between this centrist EU enthusiast and pro-globalization candidate and the nationalistic/populist alternative embodied by Marine Le Pen. The book begins by considering trends in party competition and presidentialism in modern France, notably presidential primaries and their impact on party competition. It then moves to considering the role traditional explanatory factors in elections, namely policies and voter profiles, played in the result. Finally, it examines the dynamics of President Macron’s success in the legislatives, and how he dominated the traditional party blocs. This book will appeal to students of French politics as well as those interested in electoral behaviour and European political systems.

Author : Alistair Cole
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 15,51 MB
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1526140500

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This book looks at the period 2015–18 in French politics, a turbulent time that witnessed the apparent collapse of the old party system, the taming of populist and left-wing challenges to the Republic and the emergence of a new political order centred on President Emmanuel Macron. The election of Macron was greeted with relief in European chancelleries and appeared to give a new impetus to European integration, even accomplishing the feat of making France attractive after a long period of French bashing and reflexive decline. But what is the real significance of the Macron presidency? Is it as transformative as it appears? Emmanuel Macron and the two years that changed France provides a balanced answer to this pressing question. It is written to appeal to a general readership with an interest in French and European politics, as well as to students and scholars of French politics.

Author : Fanny Macé
Publisher :
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 18,54 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN :

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In the context of the 2017 French presidential election, this dissertation examines political discourse on Twitter from a socio-semiotic perspective. Specifically, it focuses on campaign tweets as a unique genre of discourse that plays a pivotal role in the dissemination and amplification of political discourse. This study uses an innovative framework which combines two approaches to discourse analysis: Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). CDA and SFL are socially-oriented approaches to discourse which share a dialectical view of text-in-context whereby discourse shapes and is shaped by the social and cultural context in which it occurs (Fairclough, 2003; Hasan, 2014). I draw on Norman Fairclough’s concept of ‘order of discourse’, which refers to a unique configuration of genres, discourses and styles constitutive of a social practice or structure (Fairclough, 1993). I suggest that digital campaigning constitutes a growing social practice with its own order of discourse, and I examine how the 2017 presidential candidates mobilized particular discursive mechanisms to realize a variety of discourses (ideologies) and styles (identities). In addition, I analyze how they exploited the generic affordances and constraints of tweets to their advantage. To this end, I collected a total of 208 tweets from six main actors of the 2017 election: outgoing president François Hollande and candidates Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen, François Fillon, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Benoît Hamon. All tweets were posted in reaction to three events of significance for the election. This dissertation provides an in-depth, multifunctional analysis that focuses on ideational, interpersonal and textual ways of meaning-making: (1) transitivity and social actor representation, (2) modality and engagement and (3) texture and generic structure. I argue that the 2017 election was above all characterized by an effort of the candidates to distance themselves from the political class. I suggest that this antiestablishment sentiment was realized by two ‘styles of politics’: the populist style and the centrist style. Finally, I argue that the structural constraints of tweets amplify these populist appeals through the combination of decontextualization and semantic condensation

Author : Christophe Guilluy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 10,62 MB
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0300240821

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A passionate account of how the gulf between France’s metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apart Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an “American society”—one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy’s winners and losers in today’s France has replaced the old left-right split, leaving many on “the periphery.” As Guilluy shows, there is no unified French economy, and those cut off from the country’s new economic citadels suffer disproportionately on both economic and social fronts. In Guilluy’s analysis, the lip service paid to the idea of an “open society” in France is a smoke screen meant to hide the emergence of a closed society, walled off for the benefit of the upper classes. The ruling classes in France are reaching a dangerous stage, he argues; without the stability of a growing economy, the hope for those excluded from growth is extinguished, undermining the legitimacy of a multicultural nation.

Author : Antoinette Baujard
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN :

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This paper proposes an alternative reading of the politics of the 2017 French presidential election, using an unstudied source of information on voters' preferences: experimental data on approval voting. We provide a new narrative of the election process and outcome. The principal approach for understanding the political context has for many decades been a distinction between left and right-wing political forces. We introduce a method for generating an endogenous political axis, and construct three indices so that we might understand how and why the conventional approach has become progressively irrelevant. We find no gender effect, but instead an age effect. Voters, especially those who belong to generations at the beginning or the end of their working life, use their vote in national elections to support radical change; and the younger the voters, the less they conform to a left-right axis. However, this desire for change does not represent a rejection of existing parties, as the official results would suggest. Rather, the approval results suggest an erosion in the voters' minds of barriers between distinct political camps, and between traditional and populist parties.

Author : King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies
Publisher : King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS)
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 22,61 MB
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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Populism is said to be the major new political trend. From Brexit to the election of Donald Trump in the United States, old ideas and conceptions of the Left and Right are being deconstructed before our eyes faced with populist mantras. The French presidential election of 2017 was a story of a pro-European, pro-business, globalist centrist candidate and underdog, Emmanuel Macron, defeating the favored right-wing candidate, decimating the Socialist left, and going on to win a super majority in the National Assembly, with a movement turned-party he only recently created. However, what is not told, are the populist elements and narratives, coopted by all candidates in the French presidential election, and how this aided Macron where it delegitimized most others. This paper analysis does just that, in exploring and analyzing populist narratives in all the major French presidential candidates’ campaigns, as well as the context and evolution of populist sentiment in contemporary France, in general, to better understand how we have arrived at this point, and perhaps to better understand the direction Macron will take France and Europe.

Author : William Drozdiak
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 2020
Category : European Union countries
ISBN : 9781541774230

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"A veteran foreign correspondent with unique access to Emmanuel Macron delivers the inside story of his turbulent presidency, designed to fight the rise of populist nationalism and hold the European project together, in the face of daunting opposition in France and abroad"--

Author : Daniel Stockemer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 15,86 MB
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319496409

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In light of the transformation of the Front National (FN) to a major player in French politics, this book examines how the unprecedented boost in positive opinions towards the FN as well as its increasing membership and electoral success have been possible. Using a supply and demand framework and a mixed methods approach, the author investigates the development of the FN and compares the “new” FN under Marine Le Pen with the “old” FN under Jean-Marie Le Pen across 4 dimensions: (1) the party’s ideology, (2) the leadership styles of the two leaders including the composition of the party elites and the leaders’/ parties’ relationship with the media, (3) the party members and (4) the party voters. It appeals to scholars interested in the study of radical right-wing movements and parties as well as to anybody interested in French politics.

Author : Pierre Pinet
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 49,43 MB
Release : 2016-12-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781540552556

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THIRD EDITION (Please see the FOURTH edition) - This short book is a comprehensive introduction to the 2017 French Presidential election. It provides the key strategic points of the election, while making them accessible and interesting for everybody from the non-specialist to the high-level expert. Analysts and practitioners, citizens, students, and educators, will find in this book a quick and clear overview of the election. This reference document has been written in strict adherence to the following principle: to be as objective and factual as possible. It seeks to go further than the short-term information easily available in a majority of media reaction and comment, and to favour a framework for long-range analysis. Some of the issues covered are: The candidates competing in the election, The key topics and strategies, The role of primaries in the French context of 2017, Voting intentions and perspectives, and why usual extrapolations are not appropriate, The French President's role in the Fifth Republic, The way the President is elected, The legal framework for the election: - the prerequisites for becoming a candidate, - access of candidates to the media (equity and egality), - the new rules regarding the financial aspects of the campaign (sums raised, expenses, reimbursement, current litigation). A standalone timetable, with all key dates for the election, provides a global vision of the coming schedule. This updateable Excel file is a useful tool for analysis and planning. After a quick reading of this short book, the reader will better understand election momentum and balance of power, and will be able to discuss these subjects with anyone who is interested, impacted, or involved in the 2017 French Presidential election. Several editions are planned. They will be published on an as-needed basis, to continuously provide the reader with up-to-date analysis. The content of each edition will also evolve according to feedback received from readers (dedicated email adress). Follow us on Twitter: @FPE2017

Author : Robert Elgie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 35,53 MB
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113622467X

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Accessible, up-to-date and comprehensive, this is an essential introduction to the French political system. Featuring detailed analysis of the most important debates and controversies concerning French politics today, the expert authors conclude that study of this subject is being transformed in response to a changing global, European and domestic environment. Includes coverage of: * the relationship between president and prime minister * voting behaviour * European integration * the changing parameters of state intervention.